Travel Expense - Gas

[kbredder]

Please HELP!

I had a horrible experience with a previous expense report requiring gas reciepts going back and forth for months.  I recently had to travel again and inquired in multiple places how to avoid the aggrivation as the travel was fairly simple.  Hotes 2 nights.  Travel back and forth.  I paid all of my own meals to avoid the nuisance.   My coworker said that i can do a simple travel allowance to cover gas and just submit my city of origing and destination. when i do that, it comes back with $0.  What am I doing wrong?  I already ate the cost of one whole trip b/c of poor planning.  

[KevinD]

@kbredder I just looked at your expense report. Looks like you got it figured out.